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Goodness, I have ZERO interest in watching this guy pitch. Total train wreck. Who saw potential in this garbage?

Cease scratched. Ruiz starting. This game's interest factor just decreased by 95%.

We need to move Madrigal so we can continue to play Yolmer Sanchez. Duh.

No need to apologize to us. I jump the gun a lot too, honestly. I'm sorry it wasn't the more immediate fix that you thought it was. And I'm glad he's trying to help but don't put your life on hold for him either. Keep looking for things. What about online money making opportunities? I don't know too much about them, but I swear I've seen such things before. Like teaching English to kids in China, or reviewing products, stuff like that. It might not be a ton of income, but it'd at least be something and it could give you something useful to do, and it shouldn't burden your chronic pain issues too much.

Personally, not with Adolfo's injury concerns. Between that and his astronomical K rate this year, he's moving out of prospect territory for me.

On a long term basis, or just until our glut of OFers is ready? I don't know if I want to sign a Castellanos or similar for a few years without finding out what we have in Adolfo/Basabe/Rutherford/Gonzalez/Walker...

2B Madrigal 3B Moncada CF Robert LF Jimenez 1B Vaughn DH Abreu SS Anderson RF Walker C McCann/Collins

Cleveland fans will now hate Wellington Castillo as much as we do.

I swear I saw somebody attribute his breakout this year to improving from the right side, but he's gotten insanely better from both sides of the plate. To wit, his OPS from the right side this year is 70 points higher than his left-side OPS from last year.

Then I present to you a self-calculating and hopefully self-explanatory table! The numbers currently in there for Lemahieu, Marte, and Rendon are their season bests for the number of games remaining for each of them. It is up to date to reflect today's action (where neither Rendon nor Marte played) and Tim's 4-for-4 day. Edit- minor error in table BA Title.xlsx

I'll stop with the numbers, but Timmy is going to do this.

Screw that. Kill Cleveland!

OK, I'm gonna stop nerding out, but a repetition of the best three game sets from Lemahieu and Marte for this entire season and the best four game set from Rendon will not beat an 8-for-22 effort from Tim. Just sayin'.

Lemahieu walks in what will probably be his final AB today. Means he needs to go 6-for-12 in his final three games to catch a 4-for-22 effort by Timmy.

I'm pretty much watching to see if Timmy can close on this batting title. Counting what they've both done today, I think he's gonna do it. Assume Lemahieu gets 13 more ABs (1x more today and 4x for each of NYY's remaining 3 games) and Tim gets 22x more (2x today and 4x for our remaining 5 games). Lemahieu will need to go 10-for-13 to get his final BA to .338, and Tim would have to go 8-for-22 to sit at .339. If DJ only gets 5 hits, Tim needs just 4. And 4 will keep him above Yelich in the NL as well. Yeah, this, Yoan, and Eloy are pretty much the only Sox things I care about right now.

Lol Santana, I threw a pitch like that once. I was 12.

The fact that we called him up to only play him part-time when we're not contending and Yolmer Sanchez exists on our roster absolutely disgusts me. Maybe Mendick sucks, maybe he's great, but we'll never know because our management is completely fucking idiotic. And I won't even start on Yermin not even getting the call.

Good point. I count two such instances. Three if you count one time that he ended a JP Crawford AB and then Crawford came up the next inning and smacked a double. So it's 53 attempts for a net gain of 8-9 runs. Pretty negligible, I think.

Just FWIW, I went through each of Mallex Smith's 45 SBs this year, and I count 11 added runs. Meaning there were 11 times he would not have scored if he hadn't stolen a base. So a return of about 25%. I don't think that's real significant (say Moncada, Anderson, Robert, and Madrigal each swipe 30, and we add 30 runs for a total of .19 per game, and maybe the ROI is improved on a team with better overall offense), but your mileage may vary.

Man, am I the only one who doesn't care about stolen bases? It's like terrorism. If you have an air force, you don't employ car bombs. Likewise, if you can hit, you don't steal bases! In those four guys plus Eloy, we have five potential .300 hitters, at least three of whom will put up crushing power numbers. And look at Houston, NYY, and the Twins. Three best offenses in baseball, and they NEVER steal. Let's use our speed so we don't play that annoying station-to-station ball of the late 2000s, where Dye and Thome and Konerko and AJ would advance one base no matter what. Let's go first to third constantly, let's always score from second on a single, and fuck it, let's score from first on singles like I swear Moncada did earlier this year. Let's stretch singles into doubles, and doubles into triples. But let's not get our guys unnecessarily injured by trying to swipe bags. Good offenses don't require it at all.

To each their own, but as far as cityscape goes, London is probably my favorite anywhere in the world. It’s an older, non-shitty version of New York.

Just for fun, if you extend their performances for Aug/Sep to an entire season, here's what it would look like for Tim, Eloy, and Yoan: Tim- 138 Rs, 64 2Bs, 25 HRs, 64 RBIs, .368 BA, .384 OBP, .943 OPS Eloy- 102 Rs, 34 2Bs, 7 3Bs, 44 HRs, 129 RBIs, .317 BA, .349 OBP, .932 OPS Yoan- 118 Rs, 68 2Bs (!!!), 12 3Bs, 23 HRs, 101 RBIs, .364 BA, .406 OBP, 1.008 OPS

Of course that's your answer. Personally, I don't need government to be my daddy. Let's duke this out in PMs.

A Ponzi scheme has no product. You're just getting new people to invest, which pays off older investors. An MLM is similar in that new people are constantly recruited to buy the product and those purchases pay off earlier purchasers, but they're still getting something. A person at the lowest rung of an MLM who never successfully recruits anybody still does get something; a person at the lowest level of a Ponzi scheme, who enters just before the inevitable collapse, gets nothing. That's a big difference. As for protecting people from their own stupidity, I disagree. Does the government need to prevent people from spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on college degrees with little economic value, or does it need to arrest the deans who promote such degrees? Does the government need to protect people from abusing credit cards? Does the government need to protect people from high interest payday loans? I don't care if people are smart or stupid. It doesn't matter. People need to make their own mistakes. Also, people can learn. I wasn't anti-MLM until my wife spent some time with one and we both saw how crummy the whole thing was. Give people a chance, Jack.

Do you always take the most extreme viewpoint possible on a given topic? It should be perfectly clear that I despise MLMs. I think the products are overpriced junk, I think the business model is near impossible to get started at all and actually impossible to sustain if you do, I think the prevalence of salespeople and their tactics poisons society so that you can't even socialize without risking being drawn into some ludicrous sales scheme, but I do NOT think anyone should go to prison, even at the tops of these pyramids. At some point (and I think this goes back to our near total disagreement on almost everything), people are responsible for defending themselves. People need to not be naive and fall into money traps based on their own analysis and decision making ability, and not ask the government to wield that discretion for them.